Perhaps the theme does not come with a pre-defined archive page template? In which case you’ll need to create your own custom template.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages#Creating_Your_Own_Page_Templates
Use the archives.php template in the default theme as a guide.
Ah I didn’t specify. Even though it’s not showing up as pre-defined template, I still have an archive.php. I just have no idea how to get my content to show up since it’s obviously in the theme right?
Do you want an archive Page or do you want to be able to show posts by date? And no, they’re not the same thing.
You don’t have to “do” anything to make use of archive.php. It’s a standard theme template file that will be used if your visitors follow a link to view all posts published in, say, Sept 2009.
Well I think I want to create an Archive Page where people can select that link and see posts by the month. That way people could read my posts that were created in October for example.
If the archive.php will do that for me, how do I create a link on my webpage for that?
Thanks for the replies by the way, even if this is an easy question. 😛
The easiest way is to drag the ‘Archives’ widget into your sidebar.
Another way is to create a page template, like suggested by esmi, around this code:
<?php wp_get_archives(apply_filters('widget_archives_args', array('type' => 'monthly', 'show_post_count' => $c))); ?>
Peter
Thanks for the help guys. I think I have enough to get started!
